THE VALUE OF MILK ACIDIFIED WITH LEMON JUICE

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As is well known, laymen have a strong prejudice against giving orange juice and milk at the same meal. Physicians, including children's specialists, have encouraged this point of view, directing that the daily quota of orange juice be given at a time removed as far as possible from the milk feeding; the usual hour is 8 o'clock in the morning. Somewhat over a year ago, we began to add fruit juices directly to the milk formulas, instead of giving them to the infants separately and between feedings. Our object in diverging from this practice was twofold—to simplify the technic of feeding, and to render the milk more acid. It was shown convincingly by Clark, ten years ago,1that although cow's milk is more acid than breast milk as judged by its hydrogen-ion content, it is intrinsically less acid, owing to the fact that it contains buffer constituents in much

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